Ever feel like you’re one unexpected bad incident away from going “postal” or one idiot away from embracing the infamous act of homicide?  Well when the fire of these moments breech the doorway of your life, I invite you to stop, drop and roll into the following technique.  Just close your eye’s, take a deep breath and let it out slowly as you remind yourself that these moments happen to all of us.   And, the moment that you believe these moments can’t happen to you is the time that you are most vulnerable.   It’s in times like these that our ability to maintain our cool-head under fire is most important. 

Self-sacrifice to keep the peace should be commonplace in our lives and one of the easiest ways to demonstrate it is by regularly biting our tongue.  Sure it may be a bit uncomfortable or even hurt a bit at times, but I’ve found that the temporary pain can result in a HUGE gain later on down the road.

Simply put, we should make a point to “be nice” to people who’re rude, obnoxious or plain’ole idiots because we may end up being the first and only positive role model and example they’ve ever seen in person.  We should refuse to give them a reason and opportunity to pour out more negativity into the world around them.  So let’s continue to be the exception in this world as we again attempt to subdue the day and make it GREAT!

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Ever had one of those moments when the story of your whole life suddenly flashes by in front of your eyes?  Then shortly after the moment has passed you actually thought the story of your life was boring and full of stuff that really didn’t mean much for leaving a positive legacy for the generations to follow?  Well, such a moment happened to me a few years ago and it really shook me up and got my attention. 

The good news is moments after that big moment I realized that I had the power to change my story.  I realized that I had the power to put a period at the end of that paragraph of my life and start a totally new chapter.  A chapter that would be more selfless than selfish.  A chapter that would contain more lift-service than lip-service.  A chapter that would be more focused on building up He and She rather than Me and I’m happy to report that “yes” a lot of changes and progress has definitely been made for the better since that infamous day. 

More good news!  You don’t have to wait for a near-death-experience or moment of awakening to start changing the content of your story.  You can start today, Right Now, making the necessary adjustments to squeeze the juice out of this life and not just strive to stay alive, but THRIVE!  You can take captive this very moment and use it as the defining moment where you re-commit yourself to reach your full potential in this life and then make a point to leave the best parts of yourself in others.  There’s no better time to start working on altering the future than in the present.  After all, we only get one time through this ‘life’ thing so let’s make it GREAT!

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An idiot is soon to part with his front teeth and a fool is quick to part with his money, but a wise man gives freely of his knowledge and wisdom to those who would lend an ear.

For those of you who may be in need of a quick bite to eat, I invite you to consume my little food-for-thought on this Magnificent Monday. 

It behooves us not to be so quick to let our “rage” rule the intense moments of our lives.  Don’t be so easily tricked into letting your big green hulk make your decisions and choices in those extreme moments of frustration and anger.  Don’t allow yourself to be fooled and duped into thinking and believing that just because you can yell louder means your position and opinion is the right one. 

Life holds few guarantees and one of them is, if you allow “rage” to lead and rule your life it will ruin your life and eventually everything in it.  Second hand observation has shown me that uncontrolled, chronic rage will ultimately land you in a 6-by-9 cell or 6 feet under in hell. 

So I say to you today that it’s in our own best interest to make an agreement with our inner hulk in advance that in those intense moments where we see and feel rage and anger trying to subtly creep into our lives we will pull the ripcord and employ our prearranged exit or diffusion strategy to prevent saying or doing something we may later regret.  After all, the greatest generals aren’t the ones who have won battles and wars, they’re the ones who have been able to avoid the battles and wars. 

Know anyone in need of this message today?  Hmmmm…
Just a little food-for-thought.  Eat up and enjoy. 
Let’s all make it GREAT!!!

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Motivation – Inspiration – Education -Transformation

I’ve discovered an interesting parallel down through the years that I invite you to consider today.  To stay physically fit we must engage in physical calisthenics on a regular basis. The same also exist when it comes to our mental health and fitness, we must also engage in mental calisthenics.

These calisthenics include the programming and reprogramming of our minds.  Downloading the mental software that will empower and equip us to succeed in the days ahead is paramount.  And we must not forget to delete spam and junk-mail and erroneous information that may slow down our mental processing system.

Yes, it always has been and always will be our own responsibility to protect our mental computers from random viruses and hackers that would want nothing more than to compromise our positive hard-drive and corrupt our delicate mental software programs.  Be sure to maintain a topnotch firewall because random attacks are inevitable.

So the key question today is, will you be ready when your attack comes?  My unsolicited advice is not to “get ready” but to “stay ready” for an attack and you will ultimately live to tell the story of how you overcame and became something extraordinary.

Let’s continue in our unrelenting efforts to upgrade our mental computers on a regular basis as we all attempt to make it GREAT!